Meta will hire 2,000 people over the next five years in Spain, a country that will also host the world's first Meta Lab for the company formerly known as Facebook.

This pioneering laboratory would be dedicated to the development of the so-called metaverse, a virtual scenario on which the company led by Mark Zuckerberg currently pivots.

Last October, the American technology company announced a plan to create 10,000 new highly qualified jobs in the European Union, also in the course of five years.

Therefore,

Spain would capitalize 20% (or a fifth) of all that investment for the continent

.

Precisely this Tuesday, Javier Oliván, Vice President of Expansion and Infrastructure of Meta, held a meeting with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with this project for Spain as the guiding thread of the talk.

The Executive "welcomes" the investment

and stresses that the country "is already a hub of talent and entrepreneurship."

"We place Spain at the center of our plans," they say in Meta, with a battery of measures focused on a nation that, they maintain, is "at the forefront of European technology."

Certainly, far from other less tangible corporate communications, Meta's recently known agenda for the country is full of concrete content: hire 2,000 people, create the first Meta Lab, double the office space in Madrid, start the process to build a data center in Castilla-La Mancha and

connecting two submarine cables of vital importance to European connectivity to Spain

, which would connect with the existing Marea cable: 2Africa, which surrounds that continent and is anchored in Portugal, and a new transatlantic cable, the first in the world to reach half a petabit per second of data traffic (500,000 billion bits) .

In addition, Telefónica has already announced its collaboration with the former Facebook to form a Metaverse Innovation Hub in Madrid, according to the Spanish multinational at the beginning of this month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

Manchego data center

As stated in the informative report processed by the community chaired by the socialist Emiliano García-Page, "Meta plans to develop a Data Center Campus in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha with approximately

300,000 square meters

of buildable space. The proposed location It is a land of 191 hectares 12 km west of Talavera de la Reina".

Meta only has three facilities of this type in all of Europe, and this would be the first that is not located in the north of the continent, as is the case of those built in

Luleå (Sweden), Clonee (Ireland) and Odensee (Denmark)

.

"An approximate investment in the project of

1,000 million euros

is expected , a figure obtained by the Meta company itself through its experience in the construction of similar facilities in other locations in the European Union", can be read in the report, which also "This spending is expected to have multiplier effects in various areas of the economy of the municipality and the region as a whole."

Facebook turned its business around last October, when it transformed the company into Meta to lead "the next chapter of the internet," according to the words used by Zuckerberg to define the metaverse.

This virtual space, which will not belong to a company but will link numerous initiatives, represents a new phase of interconnected experiences through the use of technologies such as virtual and augmented reality.

"

The first thing is going to be the metaverse, not Facebook

," said the founder and CEO in a presentation to which EL MUNDO was connected.

The social network has seen how the average age of its users has only increased in recent years and a reputational crisis has also hit the company for its policies to control content.

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